“The police are
committed to fighting the practice of illegal levies in our organization. A
special task force had been created to solve this issue,” he said.

He mentioned that the
police had uncovered six cases of illegal levies involving nine officers in
North Sumatra, four cases implicating four officers in West Java and a case
involving two police officers in Papua.

Other than that, the
police have also arrested three officers in two cases in West Nusa Tenggara,
four officers involved in a case in Gorontalo, ten officers in ten cases in
Jambi and one officer in Riau Islands, he added.

The police have long
been considered one of the country’s most corrupt institutions.

In a 2015 survey
conducted by the Populi Center, some 1,200 people ranked the police as the most
corrupt institution behind legislative bodies such as the House of
Representatives and local councils.***